How to Delegate More Effectively Part 1
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Use these tips to help you be more effective with your delegation.
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Use these tips to help you be more effective with your delegation.
Run Your Own Numbers. If you resist delegating things to others, motivate yourself by discovering what it costs you to do everything yourself. Take your annual income and figure your hourly rate (Example: You make $100,000 a year. In a 52 week year after deducting vacation, that’s $50 per hour on a 40 hour week.) If you find yourself stacking inventory or running a low level meeting, you can remind yourself that you’re taking a 50 dollar an hour person (that would be you) and making them do a 7 dollar an hour job. That’s fuzzy math.
Choose Wisely, Indiana Jones. Pick the right person. Don’t delegate impulsively. Make sure the person is capable and has the time, the resources and the authority to do the job. You’ll break up fewer fights later.
Repeat After Me. Make sure you clarify exactly what you want done. Again, avoid impulsivity here. Take an extra minute or two to go over what you want accomplished, and then ask the person to repeat their understanding of what you want them to do.
But What’s My Motivation? Here’s something leaders almost all forget in delegation. Tell the person why the task is important. It’s important in your own mind, of course, because you’ve been thinking about it all week, but then you make the assumption that’s it’s just as important to them, which is impossible. Why? Because they’ve been thinking about something else all week. Take a minute on the why.
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